Aubrey de Grey – TED Bloghttp://blog.ted.com
The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TED Talks video, the TED Prize and more.Sat, 10 Dec 2016 03:04:48 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/909a50edb567d0e7b04dd0bcb5f58306?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngAubrey de Grey – TED Bloghttp://blog.ted.com
Exploring the frontiers of happiness: Dan Gilbert on TED.comhttp://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness?language=en
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness?language=en#commentsTue, 16 Dec 2008 10:00:00 +0000http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/12/exploring_the_f/[…]]]>Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness — sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 33:38.)

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]]>tedstaffBlogstripUpper.jpgBlogstripLower.jpgDiscussing Aging At UCLAhttp://blog.ted.com/discussing_agin/
http://blog.ted.com/discussing_agin/#commentsFri, 20 Jun 2008 00:25:08 +0000http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/06/discussing_agin/[…]]]>The Methuselah Foundation and TED speaker Aubrey de Grey (watch his TEDGLOBAL 2005 speech) will host next week in Los Angeles “Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications”, a symposium featuring world-renowned scientists and advocates of stem cell and regenerative medicine research. The symposium will highlight the scientific prospects for using regenerative medicine to eliminate age-related disease, disability, suffering and death, as well as discuss public policy and legislation as it pertains to relevant scientific research (California plays a leading role in this, notably after the passing of Prop 71 that allocated $3 billion to fund stem cell research).

]]>http://blog.ted.com/discussing_agin/feed/1bgiussaniAgingsymposium08Aubrey de Grey on "The Colbert Report"http://blog.ted.com/aubrey_de_grey_2/
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:02:56 +0000http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/02/aubrey_de_grey_2/[…]]]>Earlier this week, TEDTalks favorite Aubrey de Grey visited Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report to promote his new book, Ending Aging. His controversial 2005 TEDTalk, in which he argued that we could one day extend the human lifespan by hundreds of years, continues to spur debate.

]]>http://blog.ted.com/edge_question_2/feed/1tedstaffedge.gifDefeating aging: Aubrey de Grey's handbookhttp://blog.ted.com/defeating_aging/
http://blog.ted.com/defeating_aging/#commentsMon, 09 Jul 2007 11:15:36 +0000http://blog-staging.ted.com/2007/07/defeating_aging/[…]]]>British biogerontologist, computer scientist and twice TED speaker Aubrey de Grey has just finished a book, "Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime", where he details his controversialclaim that "we could defeat aging".

Cheat sheet: Aubrey went on stage at TEDGLOBAL05 (video) and then at TED06 saying (I’m oversimplifying) that aging, like a disease, can be cured; that it is essentially a set of accumulating molecular and cellular transformations in our bodies, caused by metabolism, that eventually lead to pathology and kill us. Therefore, it could be approached "as an engineering problem": identify all the components of the variety of processes that cause tissues to age, and design remedies for each of them. He calls the approach "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS).

The book, co-written with his assistant Michael Rae, will be released September 4 by St Martin’s Press. We e-mailed with Aubrey last week.

Aubrey, are you feeling older than last year?

Not really — and that’s despite the fact that my schedule has become even more punishing. I think the fulfilment I derive from spearheading the push to save so many lives somehow gives me the vitality to cope.

How has your research progressed since your TEDGLOBAL05 and TED06 speeches?

The Methuselah Foundation has gone from strength to strength. The biggest development, among other donations, was the pledge of $3.5m from TEDster and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, which resulted from a dialogue that began at TED. Most of his pledge ($3m of it) is a 1:2 challenge, so our current goal is to obtain $6m from elsewhere to match that pledge in full.

OK, that’s about the funding. But how’s the research going?

It’s been going really well too. We are currently sponsoring research by three teams (in Phoenix, Houston and Cambridge UK) on two of the most important SENS strands — LysoSENS, the identification and exploitation of microbial enzymes to break down molecules that we cannot naturally degrade, and MitoSENS, the incorporation of modified copies of the mitochondrial DNA into the chromosomal DNA so that mitochondrial mutations will have no effect. Both these projects are going really well, results coming out of the LysoSENS project have already been presented at two meetings and a paper has been submitted for publication in a prominent journal.

What should readers expect to learn from the book?

They will learn all about the detailed science of SENS. The book is written (largely by my splendid research assistant Michael Rae) very much for a non-scientist audience, but without dumbing down the science at all.